CIFIT organizers announced on February 2 at the first preparatory work conference for the 14th CIFIT that the upcoming 14th CIFIT will feature six highlights. 

This year’s CIFIT will place greater emphasis on internationality. The State Council has given the green light to the Second World Forum, which will be staged by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Xiamen to coincide with this year’s CIFIT. CIFIT organizers plan to invite more than eighty foreign countries and regions to the forum, and invite two or three nations or regions to host pavilion day events and a number of multinational companies to host enterprise day events. Talks with multinationals will also be held.

The methods to organize major events will be renovated. The evening banquet, opening ceremony and gala show for this year’s CIFIT will be tied in with the Second World Investment Forum. The organizing committee will further strengthen planning, organize the events in an innovative manner, improve the events’ standard, and create a better environment and opportunities for participants to hold talks with one another.

The Organizing Committee will set out to build the trademark forums. The Office for Overseas Chinese Affairs under the State Council, the China International Trade Promotion Council, and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries will continue to organize forums with the CIFIT Organizing Committee. The CIFIT Organizing Committee will also host the 2010 China Real Estate Annual Conference, and strive to make these forums a regular part of the CIFIT.

The Organizing Committee will increase its efforts to organize a number of specialized exhibitions for tourism, real estate, cultural creative industries, energy efficiency, and environmental protection.

A number of provinces and cities will expand their usual size of exhibition and host matchmaking symposia, briefing on their investment environment and major industries and projects, and host cultural shows.

The year’s CIFIT will also feature a sharper focus on Taiwan. The Organizing Committee will hold talks with Taiwan investors, host the sixth Straits Travel Fair, the West Taiwan Strait Cities’ Development and Cooperation Forum and the third Cross-Straits (Quanzhou) Agricultural Products Procurement Fair, and stage exhibitions of Taiwan investment projects and commodities. It will also host industry-specific matchmaking symposia for Taiwan-funded enterprises, and continue to stage the Cross-Straits Economic and Trade Cooperation and Development Forum, and undertake various other events to foster ties between the mainland and Taiwan.